Attitudes across the world are changing, though confidence in vaccines in the UK is growing
A global survey has identified ‘hesitancy hotspots’ and how attitudes across the world are changing
Professor Larson and her team are gathering data on the public’s attitudes towards a Covid-19 vaccine through surveys across the UK and worldwide. ‘[In] June that had gone up to about 15% as people saw fatality rates dropping – because people are constantly weighing the imminent threat of the disease and the risk of a brand new vaccine so that’s going to be part of their decision criteria.’
Poland was one of the countries in Europe which showed ‘significant losses’ in confidence in vaccine safety – a dip from 64% strongly agreeing that vaccines are safe in November 2018 to 53% by December 2019. In France, confidence in vaccines rose from 22% of those surveyed strongly agreeing that vaccines are safe in 2018, to 30% in 2019.
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